Report Title:

Boating Special Fund; Uses

Description:

Requires that at least   % of the funds in the Boating Special Fund be used for costs of maintenance and repair of existing small boat harbor improvements, and    % of the funds be used for principal and interest for capital improvements.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	240
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to small boating facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 200-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§200-8[]]  Boating program; payment of costs[.]; use of funds. (a) The cost of administering a comprehensive statewide boating program, including, but not limited to, the cost of:

     (1)  Operating, maintaining, and managing all boating facilities under the control of the department;

     (2)  Improving boating safety;

     (3)  Operating a vessel registration and boating casualty investigation and reporting system; and

     (4)  Other boating program activities,

shall be paid from the boating special fund[.]; provided that    no less than     per cent of the total amount deposited into the boating special fund shall be dedicated to the maintenance and repair of existing boating facilities under the control of the department.  The amortization (principal and interest) of the costs of capital improvements for boating facilities appropriated after July 1, 1975, including, but not limited to, berths, slips, ramps, related accommodations, general navigation channels, breakwaters, aids to navigation, and other harbor structures, may be paid from the boating special fund or from general revenues as the legislature may authorize in each situation[.]; provided that no less than    per cent of the amount deposited into the boating special fund shall be dedicated to the amortization of the cost of capital improvements for boating facilities, including those listed in this section.  Revenues provided in this chapter for the boating special fund shall be at least sufficient to pay the special fund costs established in this section.

(b)  In managing the boating special fund, the department shall ensure that the purposes for which the funds are expended, encumbered, or transferred benefit those upon whom fees and charges are imposed under this chapter and section 248-8.

(c)  The department shall annually provide to the legislature, at least twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session, an itemized account of the income to and the expenditure from the boating special fund during the previous year."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

INTRODUCED BY:

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